desiderate
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Both desiderate a world which is not now, musing with fierce bitterness or cold resignation upon that which was once but is no longer.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
Mind in itself is also intelligible; a pleasure is as intelligible as would be any transmutation of it into the inscrutable essence that people often desiderate.
From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
And therefore," he continued, "in the desiderate city, in London, all their camels are pure white.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
Such appeared to me to be the choicer, and more to be desiderated, volumes in the monastic library of Closterneuberg--which a visit of about a couple of hours only enabled me to examine.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
We must therefore, he would probably say, go on to admit the Whole System in the desiderated sense.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
Greatly was his return desiderated at this epoch.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
He deliberated—the trade price of the Bible he offered me was about tenpence, that I desiderated would cost him half a guinea.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
If this be the style of humour desiderated, the Thunderer may take as a well-earned compliment the American sneer that "no joke appears in the London Times, save by accident."
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead
Perhaps that which we are desiderating could not be better expressed than by saying that we need a ministry prophetic and apostolic.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.
From Pragmatism by William James
